SOLUTION: Perry and Crystal are selling pies for a school fundraiser. Customers can buy apple pies and pumpkin pies. Perry sold two apple pies and two pumpkin pies for total of $56. Christal

Question 1205366: Perry and Crystal are selling pies for a school fundraiser. Customers can buy apple pies and pumpkin pies. Perry sold two apple pies and two pumpkin pies for total of $56. Christal sold seven apple pies and 14 pumpkin pies for a total of $301. What is the cost of one apple pie and one pumpkin pie?
Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, greenestamps, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a, price apple pie
p, price pumpkin pie

------but this is not likely how the question is meant.

------this will give the value for p.
Answer by greenestamps(13198)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The problem doesn't ask us to find the cost of each apple pie and each pumpkin pie; it only asks us to find the cost of one apple pie and one pumpkin pie.

So divide the first purchase by 2 to find that the cost of one apple pie and one pumpkin pie is $56/2 = $28.

Answer by ikleyn(52776)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.

What the problem really asks, is unknown and can be treated/interpreted differently.

It may ask to find two prices separately or to find the cost of one apple pie and one pumpkin pie altogether -
- from the post, we don't know the precise meaning of the question.

In human language, there are words that allow to make the question unambiguous.

In this problem, these words are "altogether" or "separately".

Without using these words, the post is not a Math problem - it is a puzzle, instead,
where a reader should guess the meaning of the question.

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